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Posts tagged with 'france' and 'war' at MetaFilter.Tue, 26 May 2015 16:46:00 -0800Tue, 26 May 2015 16:46:00 -0800en-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss60The Real No-Go Zonehttp://www.metafilter.com/149946/The%2DReal%2DNo%2DGo%2DZone
"When you imagine France and its scenic countryside, you might think of the picturesque villages, vineyards a plenty and endless rolling green hills to drive through on a blissful summer road trip. But there's one corner of this scenic country that no one has been allowed to enter for nearly a century, known as the <a href="http://www.messynessychic.com/2015/05/26/the-real-no-go-zone-of-france-a-forbidden-no-mans-land-poisoned-by-war/">'Zone Rouge'</a>." tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.149946Tue, 26 May 2015 16:46:00 -0800orange swan"disorder ... is cheap to create, but very costly to prevent"http://www.metafilter.com/146602/disorder%2Dis%2Dcheap%2Dto%2Dcreate%2Dbut%2Dvery%2Dcostly%2Dto%2Dprevent
<a href="http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/the-galula-doctrine-an-interview-with-galulas-biographer-aa-cohen">The Galula Doctrine</a>: An Interview with Galula's Biographer <a href="http://www.journal.forces.gc.ca/vol13/no4/page78-eng.asp">A.A. Cohen</a>, who wrote <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=dB-V1emyK9QC&lpg=PR4&ots=46fsafC0SE&dq=aa%20cohen%20galula&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false">Galula: The Life And Writings of the French Officer Who Defined Counterinsurgency</a>, and an <a href="http://abcclio.blogspot.com/2012/08/an-excerpt-from-galula-life-and.html">excerpt</a>. David Galula is a popular subject: <a href="http://www.st-cyr.terre.defense.gouv.fr/index.php/fre/Centre-de-recherche-des-ecoles-de-Saint-Cyr-Coetquidan/Les-publications/Synopsis/La-page-du-groupe-Synopsis/Le-groupe-Synopsis/Gregor-Mathias">Grégor Mathias</a> wrote <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=FgfQzGtK_iQC&lpg=PR4&ots=fBzDG1Kc9I&dq=gregor%20mathias%20galula&pg=PR4#v=onepage&q&f=false">Galula in Algeria: Counterinsurgency Practice Versus Theory</a>, with the <a href="http://kingsofwar.org.uk/2011/11/gregor-mathias/">forward</a>, is reviewed in <a href="http://tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/87345/native-son">Tablet</a> by <a href="http://www.hudson.org/experts/602-ann-marlowe">Ann Marlowe</a>, author of <a href="http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/PUB1016.pdf">David Galula: His Life And Intellectual Context</a>[PDF], and also reviewed by <a href="http://smallwarsjournal.com/author/mike-few">Mike Few</a> in <a href="http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/deconstructing-galula">Deconstructing Galula</a>.
<a href="http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG478-1.html">Pacification in Algeria</a>[<a href="http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monographs/2006/RAND_MG478-1.pdf">PDF</a>], by Galula from RAND.
<a href="http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/pros-and-cons-on-galula-model">Pros and Cons of the Galula Model</a>
<a href="http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/david-galula-frantz-fanon-and-the-imperfect-lessons-of-the-algerian-war">David Galula, Frantz Fanon, and the Imperfect Lessons of the Algerian War</a>
<a href="http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/05/30/cage-match-in-a-cornfield-g-gentile-wrestles-j-nagl-on-counterinsurgency/">Cage match in a cornfield: G. Gentile wrestles J. Nagl on counterinsurgency</a>
<a href="http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/06/04/gentile-if-we-listen-to-a-a-cohen-and-j-nagl-well-wind-up-involved-in-syria/">Gentile: If we listen to A.A. Cohen and J. Nagl, we'll wind up involved in Syria</a>
Abu Muqawama: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130919233420/http://www.cnas.org/blogs/abumuqawama/2013/08/i-cant-get-no-military-satisfaction.html">I Can't Get No (Military) Satisfaction</a> - "The counterinsurgency debate very much resembles the protracted, indecisive wars that spawned it."
title from Galula's <i>Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice</i>[<a href="http://louisville.edu/armyrotc/files/Galula%20David%20-%20Counterinsurgency%20Warfare.pdf">PDF</a>, <a href="http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/milreview/galula_revisited.pdf">reviewed</a>, <a href="http://fabiusmaximus.com/2012/02/25/35745/">reviewed</a>], via James Fallow's <a href="http://m.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2005/12/why-iraq-has-no-army/304428/">Why Iraq Has No Army</a>, <i>The Atlantic</i> 2005 tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.146602Fri, 30 Jan 2015 14:24:07 -0800the man of twists and turnsA once peaceful nationhttp://www.metafilter.com/142410/A%2Donce%2Dpeaceful%2Dnation
<a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2014/08/central_african_republic_how_a_once_peaceful_nation_descended_into_a_brutal.html">Close Your Heart</a> <br>A long-form article from Slate about the Central African Republic's sectarian civil war. tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.142410Tue, 02 Sep 2014 01:49:12 -0800Joe in Australia"Caje, take the point"http://www.metafilter.com/134365/Caje%2Dtake%2Dthe%2Dpoint
TV's longest-running World War II drama, <i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeagipoZmyfko_AIdHEIytxpXgc_GSmsL">Combat!</a></i> aired on ABC between 1962 and 1967. "It was really a collection of complex 50-minute movies. Salted with battle sequences, they follow [US Army King Company's travails during the invasion of France, starting with the landing at Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944 -- D-Day. It's] a gritty, ground-eye view of infantrymen trying to salvage their humanity and survive." <strong>Background</strong>
<i>Combat!</i> starred Rick Jason as platoon leader Second Lieutenant Gil Hanley and Vic Morrow as Sergeant "Chip" Saunders. The show ran for 5 seasons.
* <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combat!">Wikipedia</a> (Quote in the main post comes from this page.) <i><blockquote>"Wesley Britton wrote, "The producers and directors of the series (including Robert Altman, whose work on the show included 10 defining episodes) went the extra mile for establishing credibility and realism. Then and now, viewers see motion picture quality photography as in the long shots very unlike most network television of the period. They had military advisors on hand to look over scripts and maps. The cast couldn't shave during the five day shoots to help the 'beard continuity.' Except for occasional dialogue, for the most part when the 'Krauts' or 'Gerrys' spoke, they did so in German. Actor Robert Winston Mercy, who wrote one script and played a number of German officers, told me the uniforms were so precisely recreated with correct pipings and insignias that he would cause a stir among Jewish cafeteria workers when he strode in wearing his costume during lunch breaks.""</blockquote></i>
* <a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/Combat">TV Tropes</a>
* A <a href="http://www.jodavidsmeyer.com/combat/main.html">fan site</a> by author Jo Davidsmeyer includes lists of <a href="http://www.jodavidsmeyer.com/combat/trivia/bloopers.html,">bloopers</a>, <a href="http://www.jodavidsmeyer.com/combat/trivia/expendables.html">casualties per episode</a> and an <a href="http://www.jodavidsmeyer.com/combat/episodes/episode_guide.html.">episode guide</a>.
* Background from the US Army website on <a href="http://www.army.mil/d-day/">D-Day</a>.
<b><u>Episodes</u></b>
There were 152 episodes. The first four seasons were filmed in black and white, the fifth in color. Please note that the individual episodes listed below may not be the ones included in the series' playlist above (first link in this post.) Also, that playlist only includes up through Season Four.
Episodes are here listed in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Combat!_episodes">order they aired</a> by Production Number and Name of Episode.
<strong>Season One (1962 - 1963)</strong>
1. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS4grrSWuZo">Forgotten Front</a>
2. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP2uoZwpA0M">Rear Echelon Commandos</a>
11. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QvFVGFcfVM">A Day in June</a>
4. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV6z-zsjKzw">Any Second Now</a>
15. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhKUWoopOG0">Just for the Record</a>
17. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvWAaXwD-JI">The Squad</a>
5. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r35lw9CWk-g">Lost Sheep, Lost Shepherd</a>
7. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzGxjkwg5zA">Missing in Action</a>
9. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpD_7esVUT0">The Chateau</a> <small>(<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaMbS3HwPzI)">alt link)</a></small></a>
10. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxdqd5Lr0GA">The Prisoner</a>
11. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh7tCjRzD90">Escape to Nowhere</a>
12. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32R_YUE53Vg">The Celebrity</a>
13. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVn1aFeiCHQ">Far From the Brave</a>
14. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzLWQkv6YaE">The Quiet Warrior</a>
15. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8PjFtd86f8">Cat and Mouse</a>
16. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPSX9EH154s">Reunion</a>
17. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7k8PIgi5Ok">I Swear by Apollo</a>
18. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j1o_E047R0">The Walking Wounded</a>
19. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwWlkKWLHsc">The Medal</a>
20. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54LCZJN__XM">The Volunteer</a> <small>(<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtqGBO0aVOc">alt link</a>)</small>
21. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zjpw-1h-YQ">Survival</a>
22. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vIlNFM1xjE">No Time for Pity</a>
23. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdQWGq2axLg">Next In Command</a> <small>(<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOlaoqNMm9Y">alt link</a>)</small>
24. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtfRzN3T-B0">Night Patrol</a>
25. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crpzqkXVe-0">Off Limits</a>
26. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmAvKetGSuw">No Hallelujahs for Glory</a>
27. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99ms55IQW9U">Battle of the Roses</a>
28. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XC1tHivqkI">Hill 256</a>
29. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cAFqWwJ7gs">The Sniper</a>
30. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4zOSjjqAaw">One More for the Road</a>
31. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpOO4XhR60Y">High Named Today</a>
32. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJCS8tgtkXY">No Trumpets, No Drums</a>
<strong>Season 2 (1963 – 1964)</strong>
33. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDp6OXrzSvc">Bridge at Châlons</a>
34. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6fXDYZ-0c8">Bridgehead</a>
35. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8QmrrD7hY4">Masquerade</a>
36. The Long Way Home, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXSL1_BWAk">Part 1</a>
37. The Long Way Home, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgiEQkuv0Q8">Part 2</a>
38. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4PSh3thSx4">The Wounded Don't Cry</a>
39. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cU8wjE1qNU">Doughboy</a>
40. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPMbNdOGRw8">Glow Against the Sky</a>
41. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoU-Z9MwtfU">The Little Jewel</a>
42. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcAedxLSedY">A Distant Drum</a>
43. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBzW9xY8HU4">Anatomy of a Patrol</a>
44. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4OccGvkHJQ">Ambush</a>
45. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQpm5-RFsbY">Barrage</a>
46. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fDoYD4SqiY">Thunder from the Hill</a>
47. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2umDujcvHE">The Party</a>
48. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYuy0xRDZgk">Gideon's Army</a>
49. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS_QHpEKg44">The Pillbox</a>
50. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATL-CiJ5wP8">The General and the Sergeant</a>
51. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjxPkZpqrLQ">Eyes of the Hunter</a>
52. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTi-aaOWuHs">The Hostages</a>
53. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GWvOnIP6v4">Mail Call</a>
54. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvjM4SwBHAA">Counter-Punch</a>
55. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRLudeItuZM">A Silent Cry</a>
56. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfSOKJ0PhcI">The Hunter</a>
57. What Are the Bugles Blowin' For?, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No7sl2tyPu8">Part 1</a>
58. What Are the Bugles Blowin' For?, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGqMR02eeQk">Part 2</a>
59. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjevo-sZIco">Weep No More</a>
60. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iN0Lglt6o4">The Short Day of Private Putnam</a>
61. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXecc840Fpg">Rescue</a>
62. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9ZtpoJjP5g">Command</a>
63. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsEjcTs4zjM">Infant of Prague</a>
64. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fK1m8ZEbao">The Glory Among Men</a>
<strong>Season 3 (1964 – 1965)</strong>
65. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR-7-APZWvs">Mountain Man</a>
66. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAa4xsBoIqc">Vendetta</a>
67. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xurNAbFSpZw">Point of View</a>
68. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jfKFnhPKE8">The Duel</a>
69. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI9jPQ39YHI">Silver Service</a>
70. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdKyRVyCwu4">The Hard Way Back</a>
71. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi1kkj9Kitk">Operation Fly Trap</a>
72. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzV2m-IhJcE">The Little Carousel</a>
73. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgvWtqmvnWM">Fly Away Home</a>
74. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT8NWreK39k">The Impostor</a>
75. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgnDl9J2Ark">A Gift of Hope</a>
76. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g9b8CRsBe8">A Rare Vintage</a>
77. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s30_KcJzIf4">The Long Walk</a>
78. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzhtgbrOAhk">The Town That Went Away</a>
79. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNtJn_sDyJk">Birthday Cake</a>
80. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szx-Fj9MQfs">The Enemy</a>
81. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfzOwSHZl1k">The Cassock</a>
82. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSIW8_e2Hqo">Losers Cry Deal</a>
83. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF7dm2jDEdc">More Than a Soldier</a>
84. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq9gITo8J64">Brother, Brother</a>
85. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaPgNPet3NE">The Steeple</a>
86. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkzQmUDR65k">The Convict</a>
87. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LS4u3LjVg4">Dateline</a>
88. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3iRZ37pqso">A Walk With an Eagle</a>
89. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAhCQhHDYAE">The Long Wait</a>
90. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS--W7uiAlQ">The Tree of Moray</a>
91. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L12VMhSQrxQ">Cry in the Ruins</a>
92. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEz9BdITsZ0">The Hell Machine</a>
93. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgl7vZLAACs">Billy the Kid</a>
94. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LrrX9eE-ZY">Heritage</a>
95. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3BiEX6_2qc">Odyssey</a>
96. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHF8dgcbi3o">Beneath the Ashes</a>
<strong>Season 4 (1965 – 1966)</strong>
97. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc_rhjrLWf4">Main Event</a>
98. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4sx4_d0mPM">The First Day</a>
99. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTdhFCafuHw">S.I.W.</a>
100. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moZ9-Ik3408">The Linesman</a>
101. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG0GdL1OoAo">The Farmer</a>
<i>From this point forward and until the rest of season four, episodes have been uploaded in three parts.
The following links are to a playlist for each, rather than a direct link to a single video.</i>
102. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA03E83B51A5B5692">Evasion</a>
103. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6EE2B33359903B89">Hear No Evil</a>
104. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD2CC16561FAC2F55">Crossfire</a>
105. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL357A055BC9F1987B">9 Place Vendee</a>
106. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3A3C1CC3571BCD3E">The Old Men</a>
107. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL057002A666B07872">Soldier of Fortune</a>
108. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4E051C39CD5C985A">The Casket</a>
109. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6B11E1608A99B579">Luck with Rainbows</a>
110. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3AD19596C6FF022B">Breakout</a>
111. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5508693813ADFC46">Finest Hour</a>
112. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF6CDBB2F304EED40">The Raider</a>
113. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB626D47052FBDB44">The Mockingbird</a>
114. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA9300770CA1076CB">The Good Samaritan</a>
115. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDD878171A99AE335">Retribution</a>
116. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7A6464C211B2BBE8">Counterplay</a>
117. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB1F50DCF187DD854">Nothing to Lose</a>
118. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5675CF2718717003">Ask Me No Questions</a>
119. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE3241F0CFDF1D4E4">The Ringer</a>
120. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1E1BD968CC769730">The Flying Machine</a>
121. Hills Are For Heroes, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL85F2DA4D607C62EB">Part One</a>
122. Hills Are For Heroes, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDE89E8D84039066F">Part Two</a>
123. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL863D9E47A8E8494E">Gitty</a>
124. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL67B9F360AFDFC137">One at a Time</a>
125. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3288A7DD7FF1EC46">A Sudden Terror</a>
126. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB400D24269D8E192">Run, Sheep, Run</a>
127. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL07F6DC3D33557B00">The Leader</a>
<strong>Season 5 (1966 – 1967)</strong>
<i>This was the only season produced in color. Each of these episodes has been uploaded in four parts.
The following links are to a playlist for each, rather than a direct link to a single video.</i>
128. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLACDD192D44D989F2">The Gun</a>
129. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL483BAD8CE5F6981B">The Losers</a>
130. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3ECCC16D7F0DD307">Ollie Joe</a>
131. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL52C5E18DF0FA9CE7">The Brothers</a>
132. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL30DDB359659E3E81">The Chapel at Able-Five</a>
133. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE65D2F2DAD8C239B">A Child's Game</a>
134. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL78248617D287FE23">The Letter</a>
135. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL58538D42F5F1D939">Headcount</a>
136. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8F3F1E065BF06B2A">Decision</a>
137. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE9DB058972E9B72E">The Outsider</a>
138. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3670493C587AC466">Conflict</a>
139. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0B07CD3131CE34BB">Gulliver</a>
140. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL39220C006B973C1F">The Bankroll</a>
141. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA95D27930E0D7F78">Cry for Help</a>
142. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0C23885496F1A990">The Furlough</a>
143. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7A6C55FB33C73BE1">Entombed</a>
144. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3535AC53D3D2BBEE">Gadjo</a>
145. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAAC620FED75CFECF">Anniversary</a>
146. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL78CEB5022B2994B1">Encounter</a>
147. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB0AFA0F150B93E26">The Gauntlet</a>
148. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDEC767D52CD8806D">The Masquers</a>
149. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7F191A9D2D61093A">A Little Jazz</a>
150. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3BC18F36B8B80123">Nightmare on the Red Ball Run</a>
151. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL59A004E1AE93A891">Jonah</a>
152. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL175E2C7C94E94AB7">The Partisan</a> tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.134365Mon, 02 Dec 2013 13:29:50 -0800zarqWWI in Colorhttp://www.metafilter.com/133382/WWI%2Din%2DColor
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eShpYEml9Sk&list=PLD45C02E33B4F0ECB">World War I in Color</a> is a documentary designed to make the Great War come alive for a 21st-century audience. The events of 1914-18 are authoritatively narrated by Kenneth Branagh, who presents the military and political overview, while interviews with historians add different perspectives in six 48 minute installments annotated within. <blockquote><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eShpYEml9Sk&list=PLD45C02E33B4F0ECB">"Catastrophe"</a> This first episode looks at the fact that between 1914 and 1918, 65 million men took up arms. Ten million were killed and 20 million were emotionally and physically incapacitated. The war ushered in new terminologies, new and massive weapons, and a scale of artillery barrages never before imagined.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-xhPbWf6MI&list=PLD45C02E33B4F0ECB">"Slaughter in the Trenches"</a> This episode looks at trench warfare on the Western Front, which was at stalemate in 1915. Communications proved to be a major drawback for both sides, as messages were sent by runners - who invariably faced death. Two simultaneous battles to push back the Germans were launched at Artois by the French, and by the British at Festubert in May 1915. Both failed and brought the realisation that such massive casualties could not be sustained. With a need for more troops, Lord Kitchener went about a recruitment campaign that amassed some one million volunteers. The new volunteer soldiers lacked the discipline of the regulars, and were regarded with some disdain.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IPkjlg5q8o&list=PLD45C02E33B4F0ECB">"Blood in the Air"</a> In the battles of WWI a new theatre of war was to emerge -- the sky. This new warfare was to prove just as deadly as the trenches, where pilots flew into battle with as little as five hours flying experience, with an average life expectancy of 11 days in 1914. Initially the aircraft replaced hot air balloons as a reconnaissance device, spying and photographing deep behind enemy lines, but in 1915 aviation pioneer Fokker revolutionised the aircraft as a weapon when he synchronised a machine gun with a propeller -- allowing German pilots to annihilate French and British planes.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezm5c5zd6Zo&list=PLD45C02E33B4F0ECB">"Killers of the Sea"</a> In this episode we discover that there was only one major clash of fleets in World War 1. Instead, the war at sea was one of blockades and sinkings and a small but feared U-boat. By August 1914 Germany and Britain were building massive and expensive warships - the dreadnoughts. The British controlled the North Sea, and built up supplies by commandeering all goods heading for Germany. Britain's survival depended on keeping her trade routes open, and for this reason Germany declared unrestricted submarine warfare on merchant shipping.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JA5gnJpvY0&list=PLD45C02E33B4F0ECB">"Mayhem on the Eastern Front"</a> When war broke out in 1914 the Eastern Front campaign moved swiftly. Austrian troops invaded Serbia, and Russia, as Serbia's ally, invaded both Germany and Austria. The Austrians quickly retreated, demoralised by the success of the Russian advance. Yet against the Germans, 50,000 Russians were killed or wounded at the battle of Tannenberg. German Generals Hindenberg and Erich von Ludendorff, spurred on by their easy victories against the Russians, dreamed of an extended German empire to the East.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDZpvlDac-8&list=PLD45C02E33B4F0ECB">"Victory and Despair"</a> For the Allies, 1918 proved to be the costliest year of the war. On the Western Front 2 million British and 3 million French were either captured, wounded or killed - over a few miles of French and Belgian mud. On 21 March 1918, General von Ludendorff attacked along a 64-mile front which was to be the greatest attack yet seen in modern industrialized warfare. The Germans advanced 20 miles in 14 days, and von Ludendorff set his sights on Paris and victory. Field Marshall Haig rallied his British troops to fight to the end. Casualties ran at 350 000 for both sides, and the toll taken on von Ludendorff's troops had overstretched his war machine.</blockquote> tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.133382Thu, 31 Oct 2013 03:50:45 -0800BlasdelbOperation Overlordhttp://www.metafilter.com/126148/Operation%2DOverlord
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/photosnormandie/">PhotosNormandie</a> is a collaborative collection of more than 3,000 <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/photosnormandie/">royalty-free</a> photos from World War II's Battle of Normandy and its aftermath. (Photos date from June 6 to late August 1944). The main link goes to the photostream. You can also peruse <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/photosnormandie/sets/">sets</a>, which include 2700+ images from the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/photosnormandie/sets/72157611749224223/">US</a> and <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/photosnormandie/sets/72157611794620956/">Canadian</a> National Archives. tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.126148Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:21:02 -0800zarqSo...........here we go again?http://www.metafilter.com/123979/Sohere%2Dwe%2Dgo%2Dagain
<a href="http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21569772-no-sooner-had-france-set-about-stopping-jihadists-taking-over-mali">Jihad in the Sahara.</a>
It is no suprrise that Mali is the latest Muslim country to experience <a href="http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/archives/2013/01/french_troops_intervene_in_mai.php">western Intervention</a>. This has resulted <a href="http://www.dw.de/the-man-behind-the-algerian-hostage-drama/a-16533452">in escalation</a>.
The north of Mali is as alien to the average soldier from southern Mali as the Alaskan tundra is to a citizen of Massachusetts or Manchester. This is the land where the local Tuareg or Arab <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/16/mali-french-ground-war?intcmp=239">in his souped-up turbo 4x4 is king</a>. <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/01/a-map-of-the-bewildering-mali-conflict/267257/">A map</a> of the various conflicts. In October a der Spiegel journalist <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/a-trip-through-hell-daily-life-in-islamist-controlled-north-mali-a-864014.html">spent 2 weeks</a> in the north of the country and in November CS Monitor asked <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/2012/1127/Will-Mali-be-Africa-s-Afghanistan">Will Mali be Africa's Afghanistan?</a> tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.123979Fri, 18 Jan 2013 09:15:11 -0800adamvasco"Crossroads possess a certain dangerous potency."http://www.metafilter.com/121241/Crossroads%2Dpossess%2Da%2Dcertain%2Ddangerous%2Dpotency
<a href="http://www.guernicamag.com/features/how-things-fell-apart/">How Things Fell Apart</a>, By Chinua Achebe - 'In an excerpt from his long-awaited memoir, the inventor of the post-colonial African novel in English discusses his origins as a writer and the seeds of revolt against the British Empire.' <blockquote>I can say that my whole artistic career was probably sparked by this tension between the Christian religion of my parents, which we followed in our home, and the retreating, older religion of my ancestors, which fortunately for me was still active outside my home. I still had access to a number of relatives who had not converted to Christianity and were called heathens by the new converts. When my parents were not watching I would often sneak off in the evenings to visit some of these relatives.</blockquote> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1594204829/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/">There Was A Country</a>: 'A Personal History Of Biafra' is Chinua Achebe's newest book and memoir, covering from his childhood through the Nigerian Civil War / Biafran War. Achebe wrote in <b>The Guardian</b>: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/02/biafran-war-nigeria-mediocrity-persecution-igbo">The genocidal Biafran war still haunts Nigeria</a> <blockquote>Almost 30 years before Rwanda, before Darfur, more than 2 million people – mothers, children, babies, civilians – lost their lives as a result of the blatantly callous and unnecessary policies enacted by the leaders of the federal government of Nigeria.
As a writer I believe that it is fundamentally important, indeed essential to our humanity, to ask the hard questions, in order to better understand ourselves and our neighbours. Where there is justification for further investigation, justice should be served.</blockquote>
One of the most anticipated books of the year, it has been reviewed in <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/author-chinua-achebe-offers-a-restrained-yet-haunted-memoir-of-biafra-and-nigeria-civil-war/2012/10/19/45694846-19f2-11e2-ad4a-e5a958b60a1e_story.html">The Washington Post</a>, <a href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v34/n19/chimamanda-adichie/things-left-unsaid">The London Review Of Books</a>, <a href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2012/10/20/there-was-country-personal-history-biafra-chinua-achebe/TvKI4P67NPZZYjlKS4DIDJ/story.html">The Boston Globe</a>, <a href="http://www.tnr.com/book/review/there-was-a-country-things-fall-apart-chinua-achebe-nigeria-biafra#">The New Republic</a>, <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-Reviews/2012/1017/There-Was-a-Country">The Christian Science Monitor</a>, <a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/10/12/a-personal-history-of-biafra/print">Counterpunch</a>, and <a href="http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/fdce69c8-1152-11e2-8d5f-00144feabdc0.html#axzz29C0GsL1l">The Financial Times</a>. Ike Anya, author of <a href="http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/People-Dont-Get-Depressed-in-Nigeria">People Don't Get Depressed In Nigeria</a> (<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/119650/You-must-always-keep-an-open-mind-in-this-business">previously</a>), writes a review for <a href="http://africanarguments.org/2012/10/10/%E2%80%98there-was-a-country%E2%80%99-a-review-of-chinua-achebe%E2%80%99s-biafran-memoir-by-ike-anya/">African Arguments</a>.
It has also been reviewed <a href="http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/10/there-was-a-country-achebes-journey-in-time/">positively</a> and <a href="http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/10/chinua-achebe-biafra-and-the-travesties-of-war/">negatively</a> by <b>Vanguard Nigeria</b>, reviewed in <a href="http://www.modernghana.com/news/422787/1/re-achebes-memoirs-there-was-a-country-a-personal-.html">Modern Ghana</a>, in <a href="http://africasacountry.com/2012/10/08/chinua-achebe-reflects-on-biafra-but-for-whom/">Africa Is A Country</a>, and <a href="http://vibeghana.com/2012/10/24/chinua-achebes-there-was-a-country-a-personal-history-of-biafra/">Vibe Ghana</a>.
<b>The New Inquiry</b> covers the some of the differences between Western and African reviews (without reading the book): <a href="http://thenewinquiry.com/blogs/zunguzungu/there-will-be-a-memoir-achebe-and-biafra/">There Will Be a Memoir: Chinua Achebe and Biafra</a> <blockquote>I bring all this up because if you read Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie or Ike Anya or Chika Unigwe or Noo Saro-Wiwa or Uzodinma Iweala—all Nigerians reviewing the book in prominent American or British newspapers, for what it's worth—you will find almost none of the personalities, dirty laundry, and petty score-settling. Why is that? Is it that Americans and Britons can't be bothered to learn about that stuff, so it got edited out or was never written? </blockquote>
<b>The Millions</b>, in <a href="http://www.themillions.com/2012/10/the-defeated-write-history-chinua-achebes-there-was-a-country-a-personal-history-of-biafra.html">The Defeated Write History: Chinua Achebe's There Was a Country</a> addresses the question: 'But why the long delay? Why did it take Achebe so long to write such a book?'
<blockquote>In a collection of his essays, Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays, 1965-1987, Achebe writes of his distance from the traditional Igbo religions, being the son of Christian converts, and how that distance helped him gain a deep understanding of them. What he writes appears to also justify the decades he's taken to tackle the Biafran cause. "The distance becomes not a separation but a bringing together like the necessary backward step which a judicious viewer may take in order to see a canvas steadily and fully."</blockquote> tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.121241Thu, 25 Oct 2012 03:23:45 -0800the man of twists and turns"A continuous slaughter which could be of no avail either to the French or the Russians."http://www.metafilter.com/119697/A%2Dcontinuous%2Dslaughter%2Dwhich%2Dcould%2Dbe%2Dof%2Dno%2Davail%2Deither%2Dto%2Dthe%2DFrench%2Dor%2Dthe%2DRussians
Today is the 200th anniversary of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Borodino">Battle</a> of <a href="http://napoleonistyka.atspace.com/Borodino_battle.htm">Borodino</a>, in which Napoleon's armies met Russian troops 75 miles east of Moscow on 7 September 1812. The huge battle, involving quarter of a million troops, was the strongest stand the Imperial Russian Army made against Napoleon's forces, and it resulted in heavy casualties on both sides. Although the Russian army withdrew, the French tactical victory in the Battle of Borodino was a Pyrrhic one, and Napoleon ultimately left Russia in defeat.
The battle was <a href="http://www.npr.org/2012/09/02/160453589/in-russia-200-year-old-battle-a-day-to-remember">reenacted</a> at Borodino last weekend, as is done <a href="http://english.ruvr.ru/photoalbum/19182501/">annually</a>. A cultural symbol of Russian national courage, the Battle of Borodino has been famously commemorated in Russian literature, music, art, and poetry. <strong>------ History ------</strong>
Napoleon had invaded Russia three months earlier on 16 June 1812, causing <a href="http://www.multi.fi/~goranfri/bioalexander.html">Tsar Alexander I</a> to declare a Patriotic War and prepare to face the French. The commander of the <a href="http://www.zaotlichiye.net63.net/borodino.html">Russian forces</a> was, controversially, a Scotsman: Field Marshall <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Barclay_de_Tolly">Michael Barclay</a>. Barclay had advocated a scorched-earth strategy, burning the countryside and drawing the French further into Russia with successive retreats; this, coupled with his non-Russian heritage, aroused suspicions that he was reluctant to defend Russia and devastated troop morale. On 29 August, Barclay appointed the 67-year-old Prince <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Kutuzov">Mikhail Kutuzov</a> as the chief commander. Kutuzov found himself in a tight spot: strategically the Russians needed to retreat, but the change of command did little to rescue troop morale, and advocating a retreat would make Kutuzov look no better than Barclay.
Realizing that only fighting a battle would save morale, Kutuzov decided to make a stand against Napoleon.
On 3 September, the Russian army established a defensive line in the best available position: the field at <a href="http://goo.gl/maps/OJg43">Borodino</a>. Earthwork redoubts and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagration_fleches">fleches</a> were built in the area surrounding the new Smolensk Highway along which Napoleon's troops were expected to enter Moscow. French and Russian cavalry met on 5 September, fighting a battle which cost 10,000 lives and ended with the French capture of the Shevardino Redoubt. The Russians withdrew to the east. The left flank of the Russian defense had collapsed.
On 7 September 1812, the bloodiest single day of fighting during the war took place at <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Battle_of_Borodino_map.jpg">Borodino</a>. Some 250,000 troops fought a battle that left at least 70,000 dead. The French won the battle when Kutuzov finally retreated; he had only 20,000 men ready to continue fighting. But the French army, too, was in a weakened state; Napoleon later stated, "of all my fifty battles, the most terrible was the one I fought at Moscow [Borodino]." The French General <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Francois,_Baron_Lejeune">Baron Lejeune</a> recounted the <a href="http://www.wtj.com/archives/lejeune1.htm">day of the battle</a> in his memoirs.
Out of position at the end of the battle (and contrary to Barclay's advice), Kutuzov's troops were in no condition to fight the next day. The best strategic option was to retreat and draw Napoleon's troops farther from their supply lines -- that is, toward Moscow. There was no way the Imperial Russian Army could defend the city, and so it was abandoned... and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_of_Moscow_(1812)">burned</a>. Napoleon's troops entered and occupied Moscow without resistance, but had insufficient resources. For five weeks they remained there as Alexander I refused to surrender or negotiate a peace. Crippled by the Battle of Borodino, lacking reserve troops, cut off from their supply lines, and unable to forage in the scorched surroundings, the French faltered and were ultimately forced to withdraw from Russia in defeat.
You can find additional historical information on <a href="http://napoleonistyka.atspace.com/Borodino_battle.htm">this website</a>, at the <a href="http://www.borodino.ru">State Borodino War and History Museum and Reserve website</a> (in Russian; there is an English version, but it's much more limited -- google translate may be a better option), and in this <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100915204222/http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/riley/787/Napoleon/1812/boro1.html">very detailed page captured on archive.org</a>.
<strong>------ Literature: Tolstoy's <em>War and Peace</em> ------</strong>
The Napoleonic wars, and the villainization of Napoleon, figures prominently in Russian literature. Geoffrey Hosking, a well-known historian and scholar of Russian literature, argues in <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=IJRlCuCJmKYC&lpg=PA300&ots=5tBAZruUWK&dq=geoffrey%20hosking%201812&pg=PA299#v=onepage&q&f=false">Russia: People and Empire, 1552-1917</a> that this played a significant role in literary "nation building." The most comprehensive and direct treatment of the conflict with the French is, of course, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_and_Peace">Tolstoy's War and Peace</a>. Part novel, part essay, and part ethnography, <em>War and Peace</em> looks at the Napoleonic wars from the perspective of five aristocratic families, and blurs the line between history and fiction. The Battle of Borodino is a central event in the text; this <a href="http://academics.hamilton.edu/russian/home/warandpeace/vb/default.html">virtual Battle of Borodino</a>, although a little outdated (and, sadly, with broken movie clips), lets you follow Tolstoy's account of the battle in the context of its military history.
In <em>War and Peace</em>, Tolstoy uses the interesting device of switching between French and Russian, as can be seen in the <a href="http://ilibrary.ru/text/11/p.1/index.html">Russian text</a>. Initially, this is symbolic of aristocratic pretentiousness, since in the early 19th century the French language was considered to be more refined than Russian. As the book progresses and the previously-revered French become the enemy, the use of French diminishes (in fact, the aristocratic characters seek out Russian tutors); its gradual elimination may be seen as symbolic of Russia reasserting its national culture against foreign pressures.
Sadly, many English translations (particularly older ones, such as the uncredited translation of <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2600">War and Peace [English] on Project Gutenberg</a>) translate both the Russian and the French, literally losing Tolstoy's device in translation. More modern translations, such as that by Pevear and Volokhonsky (who are also well known for their faithful translations of Dostoyevsky), retain the French in keeping with Tolstoy's style.
Naturally, a book of such an epic scale needed to be turned into a fittingly epic movie, and as the 150th anniversary of the war approached, the Soviets decided to do exactly that -- including massive depictions of the battles. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_and_Peace_(1965_film)">Soviet film adaptation</a> was an enormous undertaking that took six years to produce and officially cost over 8,000,000 rubles -- over $9M in 1967 dollars. The film, which has a complete running time of just over seven hours (all four parts combined), was recognized universally as a cinematic achievement; it won awards world-wide, including the Golden Globe and Academy awards in the United States for best foreign language film. It is generally considered a faithful adaptation, although there remains some disagreement amongst scholars about the degree to which it was manipulated to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_and_Peace_(1965_film)#Analysis">reflect Soviet themes.</a>
<strong>------ Music: Tchaikovsy's <em>1812 Overture</em> ------</strong>
The battle is also famously commemorated in in Tchaikovsky's <a href="http://imslp.org/wiki/1812_Overture,_Op.49_(Tchaikovsky,_Pyotr)">1812 Overture [score]</a>, which musically depicts the French invasion of Russia (symbolized at the beginning with the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUWVhBnMQG0">Slavic Orthodox Troparion [hymn] of the Holy Cross</a>), the unrelenting advance of Napoleon's army (symbolized by the repetitive use of the opening fragment of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlV8x8KvU84">La Marseillaise</a>), the resistance of the Russian people (depicted by a folk melody) and, ultimately, defeat by Russian canons which famously fire 16 shots in the Overture while the victorious motif of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWY-9UihgYg">God Save the Tsar</a> -- the Russian national anthem in Tchaikovsky's time -- becomes prominent.
Despite the fact that the Overture tells a very clear story of a battle that had nothing to do with the United States, Arthur Fiedler and Boston Pops started a tradition that causes most Americans to <a href="http://www.npr.org/2012/06/24/155597979/the-co-opting-of-tchaikovskys-1812-overture">associate it with July 4th</a>. If you crave listening to it right now -- and picking out all the fragments Tchaikovsky incorporated -- here's <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ogotVeBO6M">Telarc's famous recording of Erich Kunzel conducting the Cincinnati Pops</a> (albeit with the live canons compressed into YouTube's dynamic range).
<strong>------ Art: Prokudin-Gorsky's photographs and Roubaud's <em>Panorama</em> ------</strong>
A century after the battle, the photographer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Prokudin-Gorsky">Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky</a> had pioneered a <a href="http://www.prokudin-gorsky.ru/">color photography technique</a> using <a href="http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/">multiple RGB-filtered exposures</a> of black and white film that would then be composited. With the patronage of Tsar Nicholas II, Prokudin-Gorsky set about <a href="http://prokudin-gorsky.org/?lang=en">documenting the Russian Empire</a> at the turn of the 20th century. In 1911/1912 Prokudin-Gorsky <a href="http://prokudin-gorsky.org/geo.php?lang=en&level=2&p_id=1819">photographed the Borodino battle field and redoubts</a>.
The centenary was also marked by the exhibition of the Russian (of French descent!) painter <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Roubaud">Franz Roubaud</a>'s epic <a href="http://www.allworldwars.com/The%20Batlle%20of%20Borodino%20September%207%201812.html">Battle of Borodino Panorama</a>. It, along with several other panoramic depictions of battles, had been commissioned by Tsar Nicholas II; the <em>Battle of Borodino Panorama</em> was unveiled on 29 August 1912.
World War I and the Russian Civil War ensured that the exhibition didn't last long. If the colors in the image above look a little strange, it's due to the fact that the painting was nearly destroyed and restored several times. A <a href="http://english.pravda.ru/history/30-08-2012/122025-battle_borodino-0/">history of the painting</a> published in Pravda describes how it was folded and stored in inhospitable environments for forty years until Stalin decided to restore it, but after Stalin's death it was once more stored improperly. In anticipation of the 150th anniversary of the battle, Khrushchev had it restored again in 1961... only to have a fire break out in the room where it was displayed in 1967. In the 1990s it was restored yet again, and can be seen at the <a href="http://www.russianmuseums.info/M384">Battle of Borodino Panorama Museum</a>, which <a href="http://www.moscowcity.com/attractions/borodino.htm">stands on the site in Fili</a> where Kutuzov <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fili_(Moscow)">made the decision</a> to sacrifice Moscow.
<strong>------ Poetry: Lermontov's <em>Borodino</em> ------</strong>
Lastly, the Romantic poet <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lermontov">Mikhail Lermontov</a> wrote a long poem entitled <a href="http://feb-web.ru/feben/lermont/texts/lerm05/vol02/l5220102.htm">Borodino</a> that was published in 1837 on the 25th anniversary of the battle. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borodino_(poem)">famous poem</a> is one that school children learn. You can hear it recited in this <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZDixwwq0PM">video with Russian subtitles</a> or <a href="http://www.stihi-rus.ru/1/Lermontov/11-1.htm">read an English translation.</a>
</br> tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.119697Fri, 07 Sep 2012 07:56:59 -0800Westringia F.Honneur et Fidélité, Legio Patria Nostrahttp://www.metafilter.com/101688/Honneur%2Det%2DFidlit%2DLegio%2DPatria%2DNostra
The <a href="http://www.kepi.cncplusplus.com/"><i>Légion Étrangère</i></a> is a French special forces unit comprised mostly of foreign nationals who wish to fight for France, and the promise of a French citizenship. They are today considered an elite unit, on par with or superior to the British SAS or Russian Spetsnaz, and have in their long history served in campaigns as far-flung as <a href="http://www.military.com/NewContent/1,13190,Wilson_022805-P1,00.html">Mexico</a> and <a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,741245,00.html">Vietnam</a>, but are most famous for their image as colonial shock-troops in North Africa and the Middle East. Legionnaire fought Legionnaire in the Second World War during the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria-Lebanon_Campaign">Syria-Lebanon Campaign</a>, as the Vichy's 6e Régiment Étrangère d'Infanterie lined up against the Allied 13e Demi-Brigade de Légion Étrangère in a critical, yet unsung battle for North Africa. Their first campaign was in <a href="http://www.legionofthelost.com/whatis.html">Algeria</a> - will their latest be in Libya? tag:metafilter.com,2011:site.101688Sat, 19 Mar 2011 21:33:42 -0800Slap*HappyA G.I.'s WWII Memoirhttp://www.metafilter.com/97851/A%2DGIs%2DWWII%2DMemoir
Robert F. Gallagher served in the United States Army's 815th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion (Third Army) in the European Theater during WWII. He has posted his memoir online: <a href="http://www.gallagher.com/ww2/index.html">"Scratch One Messerschmitt,"</a> told from numerous photos he took during the war and the detailed notes he made shortly afterwards. From <a href="http://www.gallagher.com/ww2/side_effects.html">"Side Effects of the Story"</a>
<i><blockquote>"In the year 2007, I was approached by DWNY Productions, Inc. who was working on a movie called "Revolutionary Road" starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, two of the leading movie stars of the day. The studio was interested in using pictures from my story taken in Paris during my trip to Nice, France in 1945 - see Chapter 27, Rest and Relaxation. We arranged a financial agreement and although I sold them ten pictures they used only one. In it, they transposed my face with that of Leonardo DiCaprio."</blockquote></i> tag:metafilter.com,2010:site.97851Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:16:33 -0800zarqLest we forgethttp://www.metafilter.com/97514/Lest%2Dwe%2Dforget
"A pious, peaceful man, <a href="http://www.sergeantyorkproject.com/index.htm">York</a> had fought his country's enemy only after great deliberation and had to be convinced that war was sometimes necessary."<small><sup>1</sup></small> On this day let us remember <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyF9KKUeds8">Sergeant York</a>.<br><a href="http://books.google.com.au/books?id=mB47-g4wVvMC&lpg=PP1&ots=h1xFfs3fyL&dq=%22Celluloid%20Soldiers%22&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false"><small><sup>1</sup></small></a> Celluloid Soldiers: The Warner Bros. Campaign Against Nazism By Michael E. Birdwell. tag:metafilter.com,2010:site.97514Thu, 11 Nov 2010 15:13:23 -0800unliteralNormandy: Then and Nowhttp://www.metafilter.com/85114/Normandy%2DThen%2Dand%2DNow
<a href="http://www.6juin1944.com/album/thennow/index.php">Normandy: Then and Now</a> Photographs of Normandy in 1944 meticulously juxtaposed with how the area looks today by French historian Patrick Elie. tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.85114Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:41:43 -0800Ufez JonesLes Parisiens sous l'Occupationhttp://www.metafilter.com/73253/Les%2DParisiens%2Dsous%2DlOccupation
<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/goingson/2008/07/springtime-for.html">Paris under</a> the <a href="http://www.photosapiens.com/Les-Parisiens-sous-l-Occupation.html">Occupation</a>, in <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/gallery/2008/apr/18/photography?picture=333623789">color</a>. <a href="http://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2008/06/28/l-exposition-zucca-divise-le-public_1064053_3246.html">L'exposition Zucca divise le public</a> tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.73253Sat, 12 Jul 2008 11:11:03 -0800homunculusAll is forgiven, tout est oublie.http://www.metafilter.com/66305/All%2Dis%2Dforgiven%2Dtout%2Dest%2Doublie
<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7083339.stm">Sarko l'Americain addresses US Congress.</a> French President Nicolas Sarkozy has told the US Congress it can count on France's support against terrorism in Afghanistan and Iran's nuclear plan. [Full Text <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/07_11_07_sarkozy_speech.pdf">here</a> <small>PDF</small>]. Here also, is <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7080019.stm">a recent take on Franco-American relations</a></a> From the <a href="http://www.philaprintshop.com/frchintx.html">French and Indian Wars</a>, to the <a href="http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/95sep/lafayette.html">American Revolution</a>, the French Revolution, the <a href="http://www.monticello.org/jefferson/lewisandclark/louisiana.html">Louisiana Purchase</a>, <a href="http://www.abmc.gov/cemeteries/cemeteries/so.php">World War I</a>, <a href="http://www.abmc.gov/cemeteries/cemeteries/no.php">World War II</a>, the <a href="http://www.oakton.edu/user/~wittman/chronol.htm">Vietnam War<>, <a href="http://www.charles-de-gaulle.org/article.php3?id_article=181">the Cold War</a> and through <a href="http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1964degaulle-vietnam.html">de Gaulle</a>, <a href="http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Giscardd.html">Giscard-d'Estaing</a>, <a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/1992/05/02/reac.php">Mitterrand</a>, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4015441.stm">Chirac </a>and <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/03/11/sprj.irq.fries/">Freedom Fries</a>, there has never been a dull moment in this long and complicated relationship between two of the world's great powers.</></a></> tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.66305Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:28:47 -0800psmealeyBonaparte and Bush on Deckhttp://www.metafilter.com/64169/Bonaparte%2Dand%2DBush%2Don%2DDeck
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkHknUmnBaA">Lessons from Past Western Incursions in the Middle East.</a> A speech by <a href=http://www.juancole.com/>Juan Cole</a> at the <a href=http://www.newamerica.net/events/2007/napoleons_egypt_invading_middle_east>New America Foundation</a> in which he discusses his new book, <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1403964319/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/">Napoleon's Egypt: Invading the Middle East</a></i>, and the relevance and lessons of Napoleon's expedition in Egypt to the current American occupation of Iraq. A shorter version, covering many of the same points, is in this article: <a href=http://tomdispatch.com/post/174831/juan_cole_the_republic_militant_at_war_then_and_now> Pitching the Imperial Republic</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.64169Sun, 26 Aug 2007 20:20:27 -0800homunculusThink We Can (French) Kiss and Make Up?http://www.metafilter.com/28227/Think%2DWe%2DCan%2DFrench%2DKiss%2Dand%2DMake%2DUp
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1031280,00.html">Think We Can (French) Kiss and Make Up?</a> Two years ago it was "<a href="http://www.info-france-usa.org/news/statmnts/2002/remembering.asp">I'll always love and support you</a>". It only took a little while, though, before the arguments began. But there are always counselors to help you <a href="http://www.frenchamerican.org/">work on the relationship</a>. There is even <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1031280,00.html">talk of reconciliation</a>. And anyway, this love-hate relationship has been going on for <a href="http://www.parisinmind.com">almost three centuries</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.28227Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:27:52 -0800twsfChinese sold Iraq 'dual-use' chemicalhttp://www.metafilter.com/24315/Chinese%2Dsold%2DIraq%2Ddualuse%2Dchemical
<a href="http://www.washtimes.com/national/20030315-73400324.htm">Chinese sold Iraq 'dual-use' chemical</a> And France helped broker the deal. Now do we boycott not only French bread and wine but all Chinese food too? tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.24315Sat, 15 Mar 2003 09:23:16 -0800PostroadShould this countryhttp://www.metafilter.com/13325/Should%2Dthis%2Dcountry
<a href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25759">Should this country</a> be our next target in the war on terrorism? hmmmmm... tag:metafilter.com,2001:site.13325Sat, 22 Dec 2001 12:51:32 -0800bunnyfirehttp://www.metafilter.com/8445/
<a href="http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2001/06/20/national/SOLDIERS20.htm">Mass grave of 24 World War I dead</a> discovered in France. There's no way history is boring. <a href="http://w1.865.telia.com/~u86517080/BattlefieldArchaeology/ArkeologENG_4.html#anchor317890">Especially to a Belgian or French farmer</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2001:site.8445Wed, 20 Jun 2001 03:23:18 -0800luser